BluRay for your PC, $159! (1 Viewer)

[Sam Posten]

FRYS.com*|*Sony

 

[Carlo_M]

Excellent start towards making an affordable BD drive for PCs. This will only help the market grow for BD. I'd buy, except it requires SATA and my 3+ year old PC only has PCI :frowning:

Hopefully by the time I'm ready to rebuild a new PC BD drives will be commonplace, or even better, Apple will have one as an option to an iMac or Mac Pro in 2009...

 

[Michael Reuben]

It's also sold out, according to the Fry's website.

M.

 

[olaf675]

You can get either a Lite-On DH-4O1S-11 at Newegg.com for $129.99 + S&H or a Lite-On DH-4O1S-08 for $139.99 + S&H. You can read more at Newegg and Lite-On's websites.

You probably will want to read through the comments for both products, as some people have had problems, which may have been fixed with a firmware update. I've liked the Lite-On drives I've had so far.

If you want to step up to burning up to 50GBs of info, you can get a Lite-on LH-2B1S Blu-Ray TripleWriter for $359.99 at Newegg.

LG offers model LG GGW-H20L for only $289.99 at Newegg which read/writes Blu-Ray discs AND reads (but doesn't write) HD-DVDs!

I don't have any of these drives (or any Blu-Ray or HD-DVDs), so I can't recommend one over another. It might be nice if there were more old classic movies on Blu-Ray, the prices were lower and I had an Apple 30" Cinema HD Display, though I guess a 24" LCD monitor would work in a pinch.

 

[Sam Posten]

Heres a few alternatives listed at the thread I started on this deal at Hardocp:
Read Only BluRay drive for PC, $159 - [H]ard|Forum